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Surviving the Solo Bubble: Intentional parenting is parenting with purpose, on purpose #9

The expectations placed upon us as women and as mothers is immense. The problems become shockingly evident when you ‘family’ falls out of an archaic 17th century world view.

Tune into this week’s episode, where we caught up with the ever so beautiful, jack-of-all-trades and shamelessly fabulous @finding_nastassja from across the pond. Her voice is like butter and her story bellows like African hunting drums. A warrior woman! One cannot pour from an empty cup. So creating rituals that replenish your energy will in turn feed you soul. So much of motherhood is care taking - it’s being a police woman, social worker, handy man, therapist, doctor and bank manager

As single or solo parents, many of us are the only person our children can rely on. And single parents even more so than others are dealing with and navigating the world of parenting alone with no one to share the strains be it emotionally or physically.


Whatever the downfalls and trauma’s you've faced as a parent (single, partnered up or flying solo), how did you / how are you healing from it? How did you start falling in love with yourself again?

Join us in this week episode where we have the lovely Kira – Mama, Social Media Manager and just a total Super Woman in our eyes from @Kirasocial, narrating her transition from solo to single parenting and its woes.
Let us know single and solo mamas, how did you adjust to becoming a single parent?
Did the changes affect your child, and if so, how did you manage and communicate this with them?
Let’s just say, catching up with this beaut has put a lot of things in perspective even for us.

Loaded with a bottle of vinho between us and my croaky frog voice, join myself and Sindy reminisce and laugh at our Tinder experiences, my long life quest to find the man with perfect eyelashes AND Sindy’s heightism ordeal before discussing whether compromising really is a good thing in a relationship, or is it just the beginning of the end as it risks your loosing yourself and resenting your partner later down the line because you didn’t live the life you initially set out for the sake of love…